Flew out from Manchester at the weekend and after a reasinable 10 hours on the plane landed in Cancun.Then in a minibus and drove 2 hours south along the coast of the Yucatan Penisula to the hotel near the small town of Tulum.

First thing to sat about Mexico is it bloody ht, probably hotter tan anywhere i've been before, and thats including being on the equatorin Singapore! Just about getting aclimatized now. The food is amazing, the local stuff is often completely different from the mexican food that is sold in the UK or to the market in the states. For example, tacos which in the UK are usually quite hard and very similar to Nachos are much more like what we would call Tortillas! Been to the gym every day to now for a few hours and if I don't want to come back looking like most of the Americans that are here with the amount of food i'm eating looks like i'm going to have to keep it up!

Before I went I'd been looking at the area where I am on google-earth, found that there was a archeological site, the Tulum Ruins about 6 miles down the beach. Did some more googling to see if it was possible to walk there with not much look, most people saying bits and bobs about impassable cliffs and such. Decided to give it a go anyhow so had breakfast on morning, left the other and went down the beach. Took probably 1.30hrs to get most of the way, walking along some fantastic secenery, the green jungle spilling out onto the white sand with the bright blue Carribbean sea lapping at the sure. Eventually got to these 'impassible' clifs that i'f heard talked about but could see the pyramids in the ruins not oo far away so scrambled along them while the were still easy. The rock on the coast here is razar sharp and very brittle, I found myself breaking bits off in my hands. Eventually the cliffs got quite a bit steeper so I dropped down into the sea below and had a go at swimming outa bit and round, got 30m or so when I realised this probably wasen't the best idea with the posibility of getting thrown against the aforementioned rocks! Decided to get back on the cliffs and have a go at traversing across then, the climbing wasen'ttoo hard, and quite pleasant with really good holds in the pot-holed rock. I get to quite an exposed bit, a traverse above a roof that the sea had cut forming a cave and got across it ok. As I reached for the last whole in a big crack a huge Iguana popped its head out and looked at me, and I looked at it before it scuttled off up the rock. Most cool. Continued along and got to the ruins, had a look round them, which were filled withs loads more Iguanas then went to some more of the beach cliffs which had some boudering problems I'd found out about so had a crack at a few. Wandered into the town and through some of the markets and then got a taxi back to the hotel. Top adventerous day!


Went to another local town yesterday, Playa del Carmen, this is further north up the coast so was a lot more westernised/touristy than Tulum, still nice to see though.

Hopefully going to Chichen Izta tomarrow to sea the mother of all Mayan Pyramids, sound be really good especially with visiting a Cenote and the ruins at Coba as well... but i'll right about that later. Off to th beach now to sip cocktails and relax in the sun for the rest of the day!